pandabear wrote:
The Jehovah's Witnesses were the only Christian group that didn't buckle under to the Nazis
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/Jehovah.htmQuote:
Jehovah's Witnesses endured intense persecution under the Nazi regime. Actions against the religious group and its individual members spanned the Nazi years 1933 to 1945. Unlike Jews and Sinti and Roma "Gypsies"), persecuted and killed by virtue of their birth, Jehovah's Witnesses had the opportunity to escape persecution and personal harm by renouncing their religious beliefs. The courage the vast majority displayed in refusing to do so, in the face of torture, maltreatment in concentration camps, and sometimes execution, won them the respect of many contemporaries.
There was also the Confessing Church in Germany, made up of breakaway German Lutherans who refused to buckle down under the Nazis the way the state churches did. Most famous of the Confessing Church members were Martin Niemoeller, who had been sent to Auschwitz for his opposition to the Nazis, and who had written (paraphrase) "When they came for the communists I did nothing because I was not a communist; when they came for the trade unionists, I did nothing because I was not a trade unionist, when they came for the Jews, I did nothing because I was not a Jew... and when they came for me , there was no one left." And also, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who had been executed for his role in the plot to kill Hitler.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer